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Invision Power Board Hexadecimal HTML Entities Script Insertion
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20772
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Release Date:
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2006-06-21
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Last Update:
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2006-06-28
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Popularity:
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10,089 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Cross Site Scripting
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Invision Power Board 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3197
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Invision Power Board, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed via hexadecimal HTML entities in a post isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.1.6 and prior for the 2.1.x branch (before 2006-06-19).
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in an updated 2.1.6 version (from 2006-06-19).
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=219126
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2006-06-28: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=219126
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